Individuals or ensembles therefore look for those signs of achievement in order to affirm their own sense of mission and purpose. |
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A civic place should be a space where we can publicly affirm the different modes in which we might belong to a community. |
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Congregations who welcome and affirm persons with special needs help set an expectation of acceptance within the neighborhood and community. |
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Does this country possess the courage to affirm a common code of principles, of manners? |
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It was a beautiful ritual that allowed me to publicly affirm the vows that I had sworn so many years before. |
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The writer talked about her struggles to publicly affirm spiritual values in a culture that is deeply cynical. |
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I am asked for my view on the Olympic Games, which is that they affirm the British aptitude for sports that involve sitting down. |
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But I discovered that most other churches never make their members publicly affirm this doctrine. |
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Nevertheless, the department continues to affirm its commitment to public safety. |
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Dean has explained that he was just trying to mirror and affirm the enthusiasm of his supporters who were in that room in Iowa. |
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They are quoted because they support and affirm conventional hopes for life after death. |
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Willinsky notes that citations are often used for one's own purposes, to support or affirm a particular idea. |
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Still, a willingness to clearly affirm an alternative vision of human relationships would be a significant start. |
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They benefited from the Toleration Act of 1689 and in 1696 were allowed to affirm rather than take an oath. |
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Labor that does not affirm humans and, instead, reduces them to objects for manipulation, is a form of oppression. |
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If we are to have one voice as an industry, we must regularly convene to affirm our existence and work together to fulfill our mission. |
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As if to affirm this truth, she rapidly knitted five more rows in one minute flat. |
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We are here to affirm the rights of all New Zealanders to legal protection and social respect for their relationships. |
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As a former self-defense instructor, I can safely affirm that the best way to avoid injury by an attacker is to fight back. |
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He double-clicked his comm to affirm the order and waited for the Commander's targeting telemetry to transmit. |
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He went beyond the scholastics to affirm that what violates reason cannot be accepted as revelation. |
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Ideologies that affirm a set of basic truths, such as feminism and classical or neo-Marxism, cannot stomach postmodernism. |
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The possibility of building such a world was precisely what Hellenism denied, and precisely what we affirm when we take God seriously. |
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He needs to do so to affirm popular and Congressional support for an arduous campaign. |
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The defendant does not contend that the claimant elected to affirm the contract. |
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Needless to say, social life is charged with signs that affirm the paternal authority of those in power. |
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He has the courage to act and live with the kind of integrity which we can only inwardly affirm. |
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I can now answer the question with data and affirm that roof racks do not put excess stress on forks. |
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Both design advocates and Darwinists affirm evolution while disagreeing over the question of purposeful direction. |
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When I affirm the discoverability of the clergyman's income, I have not only the authority of the church, but its oath. |
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One gets the clear impression that popular discourse is struggling to affirm itself, to be louder and more effective in its oppositive force. |
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As we dip thin slices of raw geoduck into seasoned soy, the clean, fresh sweetness of the clam seems to affirm these thoughts. |
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We solemnly affirm that we pledge our time, effort, and resources to the fullest extent that we can, so that no one has to fight cancer alone. |
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There are many belief systems that emphasize and affirm the agency of the individual over the group. |
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That means any two people who are not already married can publicly and formally affirm their commitment to each other. |
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Whether dining at home, in a restaurant or at a formal event, you had to be familiar with the codes to affirm your social status. |
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The church needs to affirm our unity in allegiance to another political system. |
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Because they challenge our smugness and affirm what we may only dimly grasp to be true, we need our artists. |
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While indispensable, it pales alongside the possibility of a further revelation, which we immediately affirm also as a fact, the revelation of the Trinity ab intra. |
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When will we be able to celebrate it and affirm it and support it? |
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The manufacturer shall, by the use of this identification, affirm that the equipment supplied conforms to the corresponding document. |
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We hope that the Government will find ways to affirm and recognize this essential role in substance as well as form. |
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Although both agreements affirm the duty of parties to prevent and eliminate land-based marine pollution, they do not as such prescribe detailed standards for doing so. |
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We express our condolences for the deaths that have occurred during our stay and affirm our opposition to all bloodshed. |
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Since then, we have also expected our government to affirm, on a regular basis, the benefits and the importance of linguistic duality. |
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The strongest support for institutional intervention comes from respondents who strongly affirm social structural differences and who deny characterological differences. |
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The first was that responses that are aligned to the preference of the question, and that affirm its primary proposition, are more frequent than disaligned responses. |
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While imperfectionists affirm, that such language is in the scriptures, applied to persons imperfectly sanctified, they have never applied or dared to apply such language to such individuals. |
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You can also make your agreement into a consent order, which is a formal order that a judge makes in court to affirm the agreement. |
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Rather than fixing a position on a hierarchical socio-economic ladder, consumerism establishes lateral connections that affirm middle-class affiliation. |
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To affirm that everyone has their own beliefs that are not open to discussion can be a subtle form of contempt. |
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He would affirm what he discerned to be the truth and would resist what he regarded to be the excesses in both the Evangelical and the Anglo-Catholic perspectives. |
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I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America. |
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They deny both the necessity and the validity of atonement by the death of the Cross, and affirm that its propitiation is not necessary to salvation. |
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With these words, we affirm the sacrament of creating sacred space. |
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I will not go into detail, but I will affirm Egypt's strong support for those recommendations. |
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The report will inform our activities and commitments and we affirm that we will continue this close monitoring process regularly. |
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We affirm the importance of open raw materials markets as the most efficient mechanism for resources allocation. |
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Such a metaphysic does not affirm the existence and importance of the world and human life in the way that the creation stories and the incarnation do. |
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This battle between mayoralty and state legislature would rise again as future Irish mayors struggled to affirm their power as Boston's chief executive. |
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They affirm for me that raising compassionate and generous children is an integral part of building the world we want. |
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One Christology, cosmic Christology, reminds us that the Scriptures and church tradition affirm that the gift of God in Jesus Christ is for all of creation. |
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As a result, a witness can request to affirm, rather than swear. |
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The prime minister elect used his first full media interview since last night to affirm that he intended to follow through on what had become a key election promise. |
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Until 1998 to affirm my dexterousness, I follow jewellery lessons, then I found a lovely atelier and create my firm. |
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You affirm justice and uphold the idea of higher forces being in control. |
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You are respected and admired for your broad-mindedness and tolerance, your freedom of speech and the courage with which you affirm your beliefs. |
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Scientists also identified genes that affirm the chicken's value as a model for study of developmental disorders like cleft palate and diseases like muscular dystrophy. |
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We cannot affirm the truth and goodness in our own faith while denigrating that of others. |
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Confronted by such bleakness, the only things left for Gilmore to affirm were the cycle of life itself and the simple joys of human communion and fellowship. |
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In this way, we will affirm and advance our shared commitment to the development of a healthy and viable air transportation industry. |
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So when we progress, when we affirm ourselves, we should not threaten them. |
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We affirm that human rights should not be denuded of their economic and social content. |
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Prominent doctors are enlisted to publicly affirm the malady's ubiquity. |
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Witnesses will be asked to take an oath or solemnly affirm that they will tell the truth at the hearing. |
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It is a platitude to affirm that we have entered an era wherein the capacity to produce, treat and use information is the first of all assets. |
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They are demanding that the rest of us affirm their bad theology and codify it in the law. |
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Caddy Shack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and analyze This affirm it. |
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But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance. |
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They want to affirm their credibility and put it in the most favorable light. |
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One thing is on the side of pluralism, however-the country's longstanding constitutional principles that affirm equality and social justice for all. |
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It grants others the possibility to say something to us, to offer a word of correction, or to affirm something. |
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But We affirm without hesitation that all the striving of men will be vain if they leave out the Church. |
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The ordinariness of my life became extraordinarily beautiful because I was with persons who had time to listen and affirm. |
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The tragic irony here for an artist like Schoenberg was that the only way to realize art's concept, autonomy, meant that he had to indirectly affirm the system he was fleeing. |
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A number of other laws also contain provisions which affirm the State's concern for the best interests of the child. |
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Supported by empirical studies, they affirm that these dispositions in no way discourage hostile takeover bids. |
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The purpose of this enactment is to affirm Canada's sovereign indivisibility and to preserve its territorial integrity. |
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When will we at last affirm our belief in the golden rule and put fresh wind and impetus behind increased investment in Europe? |
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It's important that the social economy deals with water, not because water is essential but precisely to affirm the need to change the paradigm. |
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I would encourage the member, in his supplementary question, to rise and affirm his commitment to support that kind of legislative change. |
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Endeavours to affirm equality and to cultivate an inquiring mind have been replaced by imposed perceptions and the law of the strongest. |
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Not all his colleagues in the European Council can manage to summon up the nerve to come here and affirm their belief in Europe. |
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Most people who read blogs are early adopters of technology, meaning if they answer they will affirm their use of several kinds of communications technology. |
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After visiting Ireland, I can, in any case, affirm without a doubt that the Irish people did not vote against enlargement. |
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She nodded, as if agreeing with herself would affirm her words. |
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Is this not simply another way to affirm that power and the law of the strongest continue to dictate international affairs? |
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They affirm our heritage and maintain sanctity of our multi-ethnic roots. |
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I write therefore in order to obey the One who created us all, and with a longing that what is written will affirm, encourage and inspire you. |
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I affirm that to my knowledge, the information in this statement is true: I swear to this on my honor. |
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Advocates claimed that it helped to preserve virtue and to affirm the application of Sharia law. |
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What we need to affirm instead is the need to combat any form of racism and xenophobia, and any discrimination based on nationality and ethnic background. |
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The patterns of racism and gynergy exist, I contend, separate from and prior to the humans who currently affirm these ideas. |
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Thus, the territories of the viceroyalties emerged to affirm the authority of the king in a specific territory. |
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Integrating NGOs into its consultation system has allowed UNESCO to affirm its avant-gardism by creating a space where all can engage in dialogue. |
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As a result, the pope was often called upon to intervene in quarrels, affirm monarchs, and decide jurisdictions. |
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Anselm employs Aristotelian logic to affirm the existence of an absolute truth of which all other truth forms separate kinds. |
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Privy counsellors can choose to affirm their allegiance in similar terms should they prefer not to take a religious oath. |
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The University of Nantes was founded under the duke Francis II, who wanted to affirm the Breton independence from France. |
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These actions were used to affirm Portugal's status as a transcontinental nation and not as a colonial empire. |
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Even though we cannot affirm that the products of mimesis are invested in the panoply of existence. |
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Only President Franklin Pierce has chosen to affirm rather than swear at his inauguration. |
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The Oriental Orthodox Churches affirm the ideas of apostolic succession and episcopal government. |
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The ultimate task of a judge is to settle a legal dispute in a final and public manner, and thus affirm the rule of law. |
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I hereby do solemnly and sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of constable. |
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Heroes are those who affirm this life process, accepting its cruelty as necessary and thus good. |
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What is worse, it does so only to affirm sexist stereotypes. |
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I believe this because these ideals that we affirm are true. |
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However, the amount of rice phytolith was not enough to affirm rice cultivation. |
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The old Siberian Russians affirm that the Mammuth is very like the Elephant. |
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Now, I can affirm, knowing all the facts, that it was you who withdrew, of your own free will, no longer believing in this Work of Love in which your priestly ministry reached, nonetheless, a height it had never known. |
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In Nietzsche's moral philosophy, the sole ethical command is the doctrine of eternal return: If you would affirm something, you should affirm it to eternity. |
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I have a vision of a Canada big enough and loving enough to affirm the value of all children, adoptive and biological, children from both Canada and abroad. |
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His remarks are dangerous because they blur responsibility for the terrorist action, transfer the guilt for it onto the victims, and pour scorn on the solidarity we affirm in the resolution on which we are voting. |
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But I can lend an ear and affirm there's nothing sick or wrong with them. |
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They serve to affirm that when children regard us, they do so by taking us at our word, by reminding us of the present, and in evaluations without context, which are ofttimes the most thorough and unyielding. |
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At this point of the discussion, it is fair to wonder if it might not have been presumptuous to hope to try to establish a catalog of the complete works, or to boldly affirm today that we have succeeded. |
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Once again, we affirm the inalienable right to life of all human beings. |
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The Parties affirm the importance of protecting consumers, and either Party may request a meeting of the Joint Committee to discuss consumer protection issues that the requesting Party identifies as significant. |
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But despite a meticulous and accurate job, it was not possible to find any particular reference that allows us to incontestably affirm that there was, in this region, a continuous presence of a cult of St. Roch. |
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We affirm that all of those who receive the elixir of long life will rise from the sepulcher on the third day with their physical body, thus taking advantage of the opportunity that the hyper space is granting us. |
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Stories grounded in the landscape also loom large, in customs such as choosing the gleaning queen when the harvest is brought in, or bumping heads against boundary stones to affirm the limits of the local world. |
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We want Europe to affirm its concern for social equality: we reject the logic of an economy purely based on market forces, as sublimated into some dogmatic principle. |
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Because it was not disclosed separately, Parliament has not been given the opportunity to affirm the appropriate amount or take notice of the fact that the guarantee has been extended. |
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We affirm that marriage is a unique and exclusive public commitment between a man and a woman whose love overflows in fruitfulness, and ultimately brings children into the world. |
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The Atlantic actors intend to take the opportunity offered by the Green Paper to affirm that the objective of territorial cohesion is a priority for them, and that they wish to see this concept reflected in reality. |
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However, we can affirm that the work involved in reconfiguring the entrances and exits, which will be carried out over the next two years, will make it possible to remedy the intertwining that we experienced last week. |
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When you tell stories from your life, you affirm the life you have lived. When others listen attentively to your life story, you know that you will continue to be remembered. |
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A number of European countries, including the United Kingdom, affirm the legal right of workers to request that their employer vary the hours, times, and place of work in order to accommodate child caring and other needs. |
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We affirm our relatedness to the whole of God's Creation. |
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In addition, it is evident from the Marriage Act section 7 that the bride and groom will affirm that the marriage was entered into of their own free will. |
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With regard to the accusation, the sources affirm that Mr. Cheam Channy is a member of the shadow cabinet set up by the opposition following the example of other democracies. |
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In this spirit, I would like to affirm that Nigeria is prepared to work assiduously with other like-minded members of this forum to ensure the speedy negotiation of a legally binding global arms trade treaty. |
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In rural and outlying regions, prevailing values tend to affirm fealty to the males of the leading clans and families with inherited influence within the traditional social fabric. |
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The German authorities affirm that the objectives of the two projects Sovello1 and Sovello2 are different, even if the output of both projects is solar modules. |
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We affirm the right of all civilians to live in safety and security. |
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They affirm the importance of the service, and everyone involved. |
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It is important to note that many of the challenges and recommendations that practitioners identified affirm the findings of other research on similar issues for the employment and training sector. |
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We are not saying anything innovative when we affirm that the international landscape has changed sharply over the past 20 years, and with it the nature of contemporary conflict. |
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However they can perhaps affirm and validate the child's experiences. |
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Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients this year implemented a new advertizing policy to affirm its identity and set itself apart in a highly competitive environment. |
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I affirm the value of collaboration across faiths, and affirm the value of allegiances of cobelligerents based on common understandings. |
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We affirm our faith in the purposiveness of history where people can transcend bondage and death and are prepared to offer one's own life for it. |
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As if to affirm the fact of this theophany, a cloud appeared. |
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Scholars like Adi Sankara affirm that not only is Brahman beyond all varnas, the man who is identified with Him also transcends the distinctions and limitations of caste. |
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Intercultural communication can be linked with identity, which means the competent communicator is the person who can affirm others' avowed identities. |
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Accordingly, we hereby affirm the judgment in favor of appellees. |
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We affirm strongly that teachers must have the experiences and training that will enable them to respect diversity and uphold the right of students to their own language. |
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Several authors affirm that compensatory growth is triggered by hyperphagia in response to a period of food shortage, increasing the appetite level. |
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We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for. |
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For the rest, they affirm Germania to be a recent word, lately bestowed. |
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They did everything they could to affirm the children's self-confidence. |
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The company petitioned the King to affirm their right to the colony. |
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To the contrary, they affirm the coevality of contradictory value systems. |
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These monuments were meant to affirm the Portuguese sovereignty in these places so that other explorers who arrived later did not take the land for themselves as discoveries. |
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Affirm this Hindu wisdom regularly to cultivate patience and wise acceptance, even of situations that tend to arouse anger. |
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When considering cases on appeal, appellate courts generally affirm, reverse, or vacate the decision of a lower court. |
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We affirm, that to all eternity the apostles are to be twelve, among all the redeemed, a conspicuous, glorious, unassociated duodecimate. |
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